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Scott MacLennan BMus, BEd, MMus, PhD Student

Scott MacLennan is the Music Director of Bands at Lord Byng Secondary School in Vancouver, B.C. where he has been teaching since 1997. He was Department Head of Fine Arts from 2000 until this position was eliminated in 2010. He has taught and conducted in the Vancouver area since 1991.

Scott completed a Bachelor of Music in 1988 and Bachelor of Education in 1990 at the University of British Columbia. He is a graduate of the American Band College, receiving his Master of Music in Conducting through Sam Houston State University and Southern Oregon University. In September 2010, Scott began a Ph.D. in Music Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy) at the University of British Columbia as well as helping teach two different university courses (Secondary: Curriculum & Pedagogy and Conducting & Rehearsal Techniques). He plans on graduating in 2014/2015.

He has studied conducting with Ken Hsieh, Morihiro Okabe and Wayne Toews and participated in numerous master classes given by notable conductors such as Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Anthony Maiello, Ralph Hultgren,  and Robert Ponto.

Scott is the founder and co-music director of the Lord Byng Symphony Orchestra, a unique course within British Columbia. In preparation for this course, he developed symphony curriculum for use in the Vancouver School District and other districts around the province.  In 2009, Scott developed a new course, Instrumental Chamber Music, which has been approved by the BC Ministry of Education. In 2006 to 2008, he was hired by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to edit and draft curriculum for their VSO Connects (Secondary) program.

Scott has conducted his ensembles in various locations throughout Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, China, the United States and Canada, where they have performed for the Prime Minister of Canada. He guest conducted the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra for two separate concerts in 2008 and 2009 and has been hired as a guest clinician/conductor to work with different schools in BC. His bands have won Gold and Superior grades from every provincial and national festival that they have entered in the past 12 years. As a performer, he has played bassoon with the Burnaby Symphony Orchestra, New Westminster Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra and the Richmond Orchestra.

In October 2006, Scott chaired the BC Music Educator’s Association’s Conference Pulse 2006 and currently sits as a board member of the Chamber Music in the Schools Society and the Vancouver School Music Teachers’ Association.

Scott and his wife Nancy live with their two children in Ladner, 30 minutes South of Vancouver.

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